Exhibitions & Events

A programme of exhibitions, openings, talks, and encounters — bringing contemporary artists, ideas, and audiences into focus.

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Ongoing Exhibition

Gallery Marquess x Fahrettin Aykut presents İkilem / Dilemma, a solo exhibition of recent works by Suat Akdemir.

13 Oct - 16 Oct 2026

Light Contemplation brings together oil paintings by Bjørn Strandenes, curated by Bjørn Follevåg.

24 July - 24 Aug 2024

Ishilla Alexandra and Sisi push painting into a bodily, polymorphous and deliberately tactile register.

31 May - 30 June 2024

Kim Yong Moon’s glassworks turn natural cycles into forms of balance, support and quiet luminosity.

10 May - 10 June 2024

Kezban Arca Batıbeki’s photographs revisit travel, memory and lockdown through a collector’s eye.

19 April 2024

Justin Blattner and Michael Cedeno meet in a two-person dialogue of distinct visual temperaments.

04 Apr - 11 Apr 2024

Kamer Batıoğlu uses reflection as a device for identity, memory and inward looking.

26 Feb - 03 Mar 2024

Anasse Drif and Gavin Johnson are brought into dialogue through emerging gestures, images and tone.

01 Feb - 09 Feb 2024

ORENDA brings three artists together around inner force, potential and the charge of becoming.

10 Nov – 16 Nov 2023

Senem Erseven turns colour and gesture toward release, mapping freedom as a bright, unstable state.

03 Nov - 08 Nov 2023

Shahina Jaffer translates sound and memory into visual marks, tonal shifts and lasting impressions.

11 Oct - 16 Oct 2023

Vivek Pereira’s solo exhibition follows the evolution of a personal visual language over time.

06 Sept - 13 Sept 2023

Technica Mista gathers mixed-media practices around material experiment, texture and hybrid form.

28 Jun - 05 July 2023

Muse of Mayfair gathers four artists around the district’s shifting cultural and visual pulse.

Mayfair, London

Soul, Solo Exhibition

26 May - 02 Jun 2023

Cem Arda turns toward the unseen, treating soul as image, atmosphere and metaphysical trace.

03 Apr - 09 Apr 2023

Senem Peace looks for balance inside noise, offering calm as a constructed visual condition.

23 Mar - 31 Mar 2023

Deniz Say and Lanlan work through absurdity, humour and the strange logic of everyday life.

07 Mar - 14 Mar 2023

Deniz Say’s The 2nd Chapter marks a shift in tone, practice and personal visual narrative.

23 Nov - 23 Dec 2022

Sumer Erek gives memory a physical register, turning passing moments into objects, traces and form.

14 Sep - 15 Oct 2022

Coşar Kulaksız turns the Aegean into a precise, uneasy surface—coordinates, light and distance held in quiet tension.

Çukurcuma, Istanbul

Group Exhibition

28 July - 28 Aug 2022

Curated by Fahrettin Aykut, this group show brings material, symbol and portrait into spatial tension.

Mayfair, London

Shamanic Animals

01 June - 01 July 2022

Shamanic Animals reworks totemic imagery through Atelier Petites Pierres’ painted universe.

14 May - 14 June 2022

Elçin Ekinci’s site-specific work holds time, nature and interior distance inside Yazz Collective.

Lütfi Kırdar — Rumeli Hall

CI 15th Edition: The Lights Festival

07 Dec 2021 - 03 Jan 2022

A special Contemporary Istanbul project where digital light, spatial gesture and urban spectacle converge.

07 Oct - 10 Oct 2021

Şükran Moral’s Portreler maps biography, rupture and performance through a direct, unguarded lens.

Tersane Istanbul

Oggusto Stand, CI 2021

05 Oct - 10 Oct 2021

Framing Nature turns the picture frame into an immersive structure for plants, space and attention.